Lady Gaga performed the biggest show of her career Saturday night, playing to an estimated 2.5 million fans at Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach. The show, dubbed Mayhem on the Beach, broke the record for the highest attended concert by a female artist,

A sea of people filled Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach on Saturday as pop superstar Lady Gaga played a colossal free concert in the Brazilian city, with more than a million fans expected to attend.

Officials in Rio de Janeiro said they thwarted a bomb plot at Lady Gaga’s concert in Copacabana on Saturday that drew a record-breaking crowd of more than 2 million people, multiple outlets reported.